Create a Personalised Storybook Where Your Child Is the Main Character
Add a name, print it out, and let them read a story about themselves for once instead of someone else’s character.
Swap the blank name field for your child’s actual name, print the pages, and the story stops being about a generic character somewhere else and starts being about them. It’s a short template, six pages, a basic beginning, middle and end, with a couple of spots for them to draw part of the scene themselves.
Personalised stories like this tend to pull kids in a bit more than a standard book might, mostly because there’s something familiar sitting right there on the page, their own name, their own drawing. Plenty of educators lean on that same idea for early literacy activities, it’s not a new trick, just a genuinely useful one.
“Once upon a time, there was a brave explorer named Emma, who found a map hidden under the old oak tree.”
Emma looked at the map and knew exactly where the adventure would begin.
What’s inside
A cover page for the title, beginning and middle pages with story prompts already written in, a couple of blank drawing pages, and a simple ending page to wrap it up. No design skill needed, just a pen and a name.
Who it’s for
Works well from around age three through to early primary, younger kids will likely need an adult reading it with them, older ones can usually fill it in themselves. Fine for a classroom literacy activity, a quiet homeschool afternoon, or just something to do on a weekend that isn’t a screen.
Grab the template
Download the Storybook TemplateFree, no email required. Six pages, print and fill in by hand.